MORE FROM FORBES Goodbye Passwords, Hello 'Unbreakable' Quantum IDs Containing 1,000 Trillion Atoms By Davey Winder A $1 million per year criminal business I have reached out to Epic Games regarding the account protections they have in place and will update this article once I have a statement to publish.

The most efficient version of this tool is sold on a personal referral basis only, on a $2,000 (£1,500) per month license. Another tool, a Fortnite account checker capable of automatically changing passwords, checking for available skins and the like, is employed to do just that.

These services don't use IPs that are typically associated with such proxies or with VPNs, but instead, use residential IPs to be more likely in passing through any filtering that Epic Games has in place.īut it doesn't stop there. These don't come cheap, with one Fortnite hacker stating he pays more than $10,000 (£7,500) a month for such services. But, Troia says, the hackers circumvent such barriers by paying for proxy rotation services, which can issue a new IP for every account checking request. Epic Games does, for example, limit the number of logins allowed per IP address to prevent such bulk automated account probing. It's not all plain-sailing for the would-be Fortnite hacker. Then there's using email addresses and usernames as password seeds, and so on. Troia quotes a prolific password cracker as saying that many people use 'small and predictable changes' such as capitalization differences, for example. The most successful hackers are those who understand the psychology of password creation amongst the general population, including Fortnite players. MORE FROM FORBES 60 Seconds In Cybersecurity: Here's What Happens In Just One Malicious Internet Minute By Davey Winder Cracking Fortnite accountsĪccording to Troia, one Fortnite account-hacking tool can average 500 such account checks every second. Testing out variations is done in double-quick time by fully automated processes. This is where the breached credentials are used to try and access high-value accounts elsewhere, high-value like your Fortnite account.Įven if you use simple variations of the same password, say incremental numbering, for example, then you are not safe. You have opened up to a credential stuffing attack, to be precise. It only takes one of those sites or services to be hacked, and all the others are open to attack. The point being, if you reuse the same credentials, the same passwords, across multiple accounts, then you are asking for trouble.

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